Imperial capacity unit
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～ a unit of measure for capacity officially adopted in the British Imperial System; British units are both dry and wet
International System of Units
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～ a complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists; fundamental quantities are length (meter) and mass (kilogram) and time (second) and electric current (ampere) and temperature (kelvin) and amount of matter (mole) and luminous intensity (candela); "Today the United States is the only country in the world not totally committed to the Systeme International d'Unites"
Islamic Unity
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～ a fundamentalist Islamic group in Somalia who initially did fundraising for al-Qaeda; responsible for ambushing United States Army Rangers and for terrorist bombings in Ethiopia; believed to have branches in several countries
ice up
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～ become covered with a layer of ice; of a surface such as a window; "When the wings iced up, the pilot was forced to land his plane"
ill-usage
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～ cruel or inhumane treatment; "the child showed signs of physical abuse"
ill-use
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～ treat badly; "This boss abuses his workers"; "She is always stepping on others to get ahead"
in use
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～ (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line); "her line is busy"; "receptionists' telephones are always engaged"; "the lavatory is in use"; "kept getting a busy signal"
in use
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～ currently being used; "robots are in use throughout industry"
ill-used
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～ (of persons) taken advantage of; "after going out of his way to help his friend get the job he felt not appreciated but used"
in utero
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～ in the uterus; "the child was infected in utero from the mother"
Islamic Group of Uzbekistan
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～ a terrorist group of Islamic militants formed in 1996; opposes Uzbekistan's secular regime and wants to establish an Islamic state in central Asia; is a conduit for drugs from Afghanistan to central Asian countries
in vacuo
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～ in isolation and without reference to anything else
in vain
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～ to no avail; "he looked for her in vain"; "the city fathers tried vainly to find a solution"
intake valve
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～ a valve that controls the flow of fluid through an intake
ileocecal valve
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～ valve between the ileum of the small intestine and the cecum of the large intestine; prevents material from flowing back from the large to the small intestine
independent variable
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～ (statistics) a variable whose values are independent of changes in the values of other variables
Ivan Iv Vasilievich
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～ the first czar of Russia (1530-1584)
Ivan III Vasilievich
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～ grand duke of Muscovy whose victories against the Tartars laid the basis for Russian unity (1440-1505)